It was the First Time I Was Hooked By A Series With Continuing Characters.Īnd what characters there were: the humorless Howie Kemp and his bratty baby sister, Willa Jean spoiled pretty-girl Susan Kushner, with the curls Ramona can’t help pulling with a satisfying boing! Davy, Ramona’s kissable crush even Ramona’s parents were fully-realized characters, with their own strengths and weaknesses. I went to the librarian at my elementary school with a copy of the book and asked her, “Are there more of these?” Together, we looked through the card catalogue (and they were really on cards in those days, kids! And a steak only cost a nickel! Now get offa my lawn!) and she steered me over to a shelf lined with other books by Beverly Cleary.
My mother had given me the hardcover of Ramona the Brave - shown just up there on the right - on its release in 1975, as I was starting third grade.
Beverly Cleary’s Ramona the Brave opens in the middle of a conflict, with Ramona trailing along after her sister Beezus, storming home from the playground steaming mad because some boys taunted her with calls of “Jesus Beezus!” Later, first-grader Ramona runs across a plagiarizing classmate who copies her paper owl, encounters a mean dog, braves the dark of her own bedroom, and defiantly informs her parents that she is going to say a bad word.įortunately, there was more.
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